The Indiana General Assembly’s Criminal Code Evaluation Commission has started another round of hearings to collect
data and recommendations for revising the state’s criminal statutes. A key element of this review will be an extensive
study of significant sections of Title 35 by the CCEC Work Group.

Indiana this year became the 23rd state to enact a right-to-work law in which workers cannot be compelled to pay union dues.
Within months, individual workers in union shops opted out, even as court challenges linger.

Many of the laws enacted during the 2012 legislative session take effect July 1. This list includes enrolled acts, along with
newly assigned public law numbers, that have full or partial July 1 effective dates.

Even if the U.S. Congress fails to pass a short-term budget measure and prevent a government shutdown before midnight Friday,
the various arms of the Indiana federal legal community will remain operating mostly as usual – at least for the time
being.

A Lake Superior judge may not be breaking any new legal ground with an election-related ruling this week, but he’s set
the stage for an appeal that could clear up confusion about whether nonpartisan school board members must give up their right
to run for a public office that requires the candidate to declare their political party affiliation.

Some may say law and politics go together like love and marriage, but it’s more than a cliché when looking at
how the Indiana legal community is being influenced and even transformed by the political process.

As the interim legislative calendar wound down to make way for the next Indiana General Assembly session, the Commission on
Courts has made recommendations on new court requests and discussed issues that impact funding and structure of statewide
trial courts.

A Highland attorney is back on the ballot for a Lake Circuit judge opening after he received a temporary restraining order
that says the Indiana Election Commission shouldn’t have removed his name as a candidate for the general election.

This year’s Program on Law and State Government at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis Oct. 1 will
focus on three main topics for lawyers, businesses, legislators, government employees, and academics: education about entrepreneurship
at the undergrad, graduate school, and law school levels; the idea of “social businesses,” also known as L3Cs
or low profit limited liability companies; and how government entities use data to improve services to citizens.